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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: wireless notes / pre d80211 merge
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:47:47 -0500
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Cc: Simon Barber <simon@devicescape.com>,
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	Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>,
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Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:10:50 -0800, Simon Barber wrote:
>> I disagree that the master device is a hack
> 
> It's a clever hack but still a hack. The Linux network interfaces
> wasn't designed for the sort of things we do with master interface.
> Actually, the networking core doesn't support the concept of "wiphys"
> at all. Yes, Jouni found a really clever way around this. But the most
> correct solution is different.

Agreed.

	Jeff